Intrinsic Quotations

In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.

I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.

There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't stay in that state. We're not here to be blissed out all the time.

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value.

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

Only art of intrinsic value is suitable for children! Everything else is harmful.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Looking past the short-term price risk inherent in essentially any asset -- real or financial -- there is little doubt that housing represents a good long-term investment. Since the mid-1950s, real home prices in Canada have increased, on average, just over two per cent per year . Of course, home ownership also carries intrinsic value beyond its investment potential, including lifestyle benefits.

Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.

It is an intrinsic part of what we do, and it makes good business sense too.

I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

I think the main problem with the previous studies is that they couldn't really tease apart the effect of infection and the intrinsic differences in attractiveness among people.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

When dust is smaller than or comparable to the wavelength of light, the reflected color is dominated by particle size effects rather than the intrinsic color of the material.

To me, short-sellers are no good for long-term investors. They can move prices of a stock in a way that has nothing to do with fundamental intrinsic value.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Until we receive more information from the company, we tentatively estimate the intrinsic value of Sears' stock at between $36 and $42 a share.

This suggests that while certain genetic factors place an individual at risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis, lung injury substantially contributes to the disease. That finding raises the possibility that an intrinsic inability to repair injured lung tissue may be the fundamental biologic defect that ultimately results in fibrosis and lung collapse.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

Transit should be an uplifting experience. And there's an intrinsic value in having not just functional but beautiful public spaces.

When you know a player from the outside, you don't know all of him. You don't know his warts when he gets to your gym. You don't know the intrinsic value that he may have. You just see him on tape and on scouting reports, and that's the surface of the guy.

There are issues of intrinsic aptitude ... I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong.

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

You have to start making those an intrinsic part of what you do. I think the more we do that, the better we're going to be as a team.

Write a smaller check, get a bigger value and the intrinsic value of people giving back to the community.

Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.

Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What drives me is the intrinsic value.

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

We didn't get serious about security early enough. The Internet carefully delivers that virus to your door because its job is to deliver packets and not to inquire whether the application is good for you. The 'Net by itself is doing what it should do, but we don't have intrinsic integrity and authentication. We didn't do that way back when, and it should have been done.

Dawkins Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity

The Korean banks' intrinsic value has improved since the crisis, but still substantially below the global average. More needs to be done, and one way is to have strong foreign banks have a stronger controlling presence because it changes the whole competitive dynamics.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

CALEA in a sense is the culmination of where we've been, ... Now the communications network is built to be wiretap-ready, so you don't need Carnivore anymore. It's just intrinsic to the system.

CALEA in a sense is the culmination of where we've been. Now the communications network is built to be wiretap-ready, so you don't need Carnivore anymore. It's just intrinsic to the system.

How could he not? ... Look at his head: He's got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had certain intrinsic qualities, his hair, his eating habits. A lot of funny idiosyncrasies.

. . . a great deal of wonderful clutter -- all of it carefully ordered and intimately meaningful to the homemaker. She cares little about the intrinsic value of any of her possessions as long as it's something she loves.

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.

That kind of pressure can't drive you as a coach, ... You'll make bad decisions, do things the wrong way. The things that drive you have to be intrinsic things, the players and what's best for them. That's what drives you. You can't get caught up in all the other stuff.

This means that the intrinsic power of the economy mainly market forces instead of factors outside the economy was having a greater influence, which was a good thing.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

There's an intrinsic value. We don't want this particular species to become extinct. This is one more species unique to Florida that would be gone.

There's a pervasive problem in trying to sort out whether there is something intrinsic about homeownership that causes these externalities or whether the people that become homeowners are the kind of people that generate these externalities.

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.